More Endeavours to Improve Employability
Every day, more and more institutions are waking up to the fact that students passing out from their portals are not equipped enough to contribute to the industry. What they are lacking is employability skills. The institutions are worried because a dip in campus placements reflects poorly on their capabilities. They know that the best way to attract students is to show them a long list of successfully placed candidates. In order to ensure the development of soft skills, they are tying up with companies, training institutes and universities like IGNOU. Among the soft skills, effective communication is given the most importance as most students are weak in this area. Click here to read a report about it.
Choosing The Best Places to Study
All of us want to be in the best schools, colleges and universities right? Not only does a renowned institution guarantee good facilities, it also adds a lot of value to our profiles. While looking for a job, recruiters will undoubtedly be impressed if you are from a premiere institution. So how do we go about looking for the best places to study? Most often, academic rankings come to the rescue. Irrespective of the country you want to go to, you can easily find lists of top ranking institutions for that country. Often, the rankings provide you the websites as well so that you can choose your dream destination and get in touch right away.
However, always remember to look at how good the faculty for your area of interest is. Often we get carried away by looking at the overall rankings only to discover that the course we want to pursue is not one of the university’s strengths. It would be better to make a list of the top-ranking institutes and then research the department of your choice in all of them. Make a second list based on the reputation and quality of the departments and go for the top ones.
Found an interesting article on The Hindu about the way the rankings are arrived at. Take a look.
Exploring Current Openings in Domestic BPOs
Fluency in languages is the primary requirement for a BPO job. By fluency in languages, we most often mean English and maybe some foreign languages. While it is true that English and foreign languages get you the best BPO jobs and the highest pay-packages, regional languages can get you a good position too. Not all BPOs cater to international customers and also among those who do, there are requirements for the domestic sector.
BPOs know that all customers won’t be comfortable with English when it comes to communicating within India. In order to enhance customer services, BPOs have a team which caters to customers unwilling to speak in English. To handle the domestic sphere, a team of customer service executives are hired who communicate in regional languages. For such a profile, it is desirable to be fluent in more than one regional language including Hindi.
The demand is quite big and rewards offered are exciting. To check out a few openings, click here.
More on Education in Germany
Sometime back I posted a blog on education in Germany and the DAAD scholarships which can get you there. Today I came across an article in The Hindu that discusses the prospects of education in Germany and what it has to offer to Indian students. I got some new information and decided to share it here. The article gives details about the different categories of Universities to be found in Germany. The range of courses offered is extensive. Germany currently offers 90 Bachelor’s programmes, 450 Master’s programmes, and 190 doctoral programmes. Check out the article here if you are considering courses abroad.